---------------------------------------------------------------------------- UAI-2000 Workshop on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with Data for Decision Support ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stanford University, June 30, 2000 >>> First Call for Papers <<< Statistics and inductive machine learning are data-oriented tasks in which domain models are induced from data, but databases are not the only resource from which models can be derived. Domain knowledge is still an important resource, and refinements in knowledge engineering have made the construction of knowledge-based systems more tractable. But when both data and domain knowledge are available, how can these two resources be used together for the construction of decision support systems? The aim of the one-day workshop is to critically examine current approaches to integrating domain knowledge with data (knowledge-data fusion) and identify future areas of research. The emphasis is on sound theoretical frameworks rather than ad hoc approaches. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Practical applications of knowledge-data fusion. What lessons have been learnt from attempts to apply knowledge-data fusion to real-world decision problems? * How are the various knowledge representation and inference frameworks that permit induction theoretically related to each other? * What frameworks enable an existing induced model, such as a neural network, to be incorporated into a proposed knowledge-based system? * How can knowledge-data fusion be applied to temporal data? Contributions describing work in progress as well as position papers are invited. Of particular interest are papers that combine theoretical discussion with practical examples, and papers that compare different approaches. The workshop will interest researchers working in artificial intelligence (both uncertainty reasoning and knowledge engineering), decision theory, and statistics. The papers presented at the workshop will be published as Workshop Notes. Authors of the more interesting papers will be invited to write full-length versions to be published in a special issue of an appropriate journal. Timetable -------------- Electronic submission of full papers: March 31, 2000 Author notification of accepted papers: April 28, 2000 Final Version of accepted papers: May 26, 2000 Organizing Committee -------------------------------- Richard Dybowski (King's College London) [contact point] James Myers (Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) TOR) Simon Parsons (Queen Mary & Westfield College) Additional information can be found at http://www.umds.ac.uk/microbio/richard/kdf2000/kdf1cfp.html ------------------------------- Richard Dybowski PhD Research Fellow (Knowledge & Data Engineering) King's College London Medical Informatics Laboratory (Department of Medicine) 4th Floor North Wing St Thomas' Hospital Lambeth Palace Road London SE1 7EH UK Tel (office): (0)20 7928 9292 extension 6429 Tel (mobile): 0976 250092 Fax: +44 (0)20 7928 4458 E-mail: richard.dybowski@kcl.ac.uk Web site: http://www.umds.ac.uk/microbio/richard/richard.htm Note: Currently using e-mail address richard@n-space.co.uk whilst link to Internet is being established in my new office at St Thomas' Hospital
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